Mandarin has 4 (technically 5) tones so "ma" could be any one of those 4 different pronunciations. Furthermore, there are many completely different words that have the same tone/pronunciation. You just learn through context (same way as you do with English homophones)

Mom in mandarin is 媽 (mā) whereas weed is 麻 (má). Colloquially you can also say 大麻 (dàmá) for weed.

I'm still using a galaxy S10 specifically because there aren't any phones on the market that have a headphone jack that I like.

It has 512gb storage, 6gb ram, removable sim and expandable storage. Just replaced the battery off ifixit. Only issue is no eSIM support for international travel but that's a small price to pay.

Yea but heat pumps have a coefficient of performance of greater than 1 cause you're moving heat instead of generating it.

Source since op didn't provide it

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You're glad RFK Jr. tells lies about Bernie Sanders?

Iirc if your water boiler supports it, you can have it circulate the hot water in the pipes to warm them up without wasting water

There are many blue voters who live in areas affected by the Palisades fire

Pretty sure Amazon gets kickbacks from the city of Seattle to keep the offices filled with ppl

Isn't that only if wages increase alongside inflation

I think it's a Fallout:New Vegas reference

Yeah if you're giving a red envelope, you don't hide it inside another bag/object

Same way still. Samsung is a bit slower in rolling them out to older phones generally but that's almost a good thing with all of the AI pushes and unnecessary bloat

US Mobile. Main reason is cost since it's $8/month with the annual plan ($10/month if you do month to month). Only 2GB data but I'm almost always on wifi anyways.

Biggest issue I notice is that calls can take a while to connect if in a busy area. I'll try to call someone and it won't start ringing for 5sec or more at times. Sometimes it won't even connect at all and I'll have to use VOIP but that eats into data which is already limited.

https://toc.qidianunderground.org/ has a lot of translated Chinese web novels if you're not specifically looking for Japanese light novels

What? She in Chinese is 她. It might not be used often but it definitely is gendered....